Pierre Boulez On Conducting

“What I do is not spectacular, but I am doing a lot of things. They may be small movements, but they are directed exactly to the musician who needs them. And in performance, the force is always more because of the excitement of the concert. You have to impose your will – not with a hammer, but you have to be able to convince people of your point of view.”

Is Rock Hall Moving To New York?

Some have wondered after the museum announced it would open a New York annex. But the museum’s president says emphatically no. “Cleveland didn’t create this and a lot of folks in this region forget that. They think that we had this idea one day and decided we’d build it. We have a license with New York and that was something that was negotiated over a period of time.”